Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 286
As the prince stepped forward, the prime-minister gave him the brass plate on which was engraved his father’s will.
Who acts: prime minister · What happens: step forward, give, engrave · To what, where: prince, father, brass plate
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prime minister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 prince | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 stepped | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 minister | det |
| 8 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minister | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 prime | punct |
| 10 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stepped | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plate | det |
| 14 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plate | compound |
| 15 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 will | nsubj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 engraved | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 engraved | aux:pass |
| 19 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 plate | acl:relcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 engraved | obj |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 father | case |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step forward | past | as the prince; forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the prime minister | prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | engrave | past · passive | prince's father | the brass plate | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: father=Theme on which=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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